The New York Herald Newspaper, January 24, 1874, Page 4

4 YEW YORK HERALD —-—___— sRoapway AND ANN STREET. JAMES GORDON BENNETT, PROPRIETOR, All business or news letters and telegraphic be addressed New Yorx Aespatches must Henavp. Letters and packages should be properly sealed. Rejected communications will not be re- éurned. —_—____—. LONDON OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK HERALD—NO. 46 FLEET STREET. Subscriptions and Advertisements will be received and forwarded on the same terms as in New York. ASUSEMENTS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ——— FIFTH AVENUE THEATRE, fvpatcishia street and Froadway MAN AND WIFE, PLM; closes at 10 Mr. Harkins, Miss Ada dyes Matinee at 1:30 P. WALLACK'’S THEATRE. roadway and Thirteenth street MONEY. at 8 P.M. ; closes at IL Mr. Lester Wallack, Miss Jeffreys Lewis. Saunce x 1.30 P.M, BOO’ 8 THEATRE, Sixth avenue and wena’ third on t ae A FEMME DE FRO, at 745 FP. M.; closes at 10:5 . M, Mrs. J. BL Booth. Matinee ar1:30 P. M. 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ACROss THE GONTINENT, at 3 P.M jcloses ab ll P. ML. “0. D. Byron. GRAND. OPERA E HOUSE, Fifth avenue and Twenty-third street.—NUMPTY UMPTY ABROAD. at7 : closes at 10:45 P. M. .G. L. Fox. Matinee M. TONY PASTOR'S OPERA HOUSE, No. 201 Bowery.—VARIETY TERTAINMENT, at 8 P. &. ; closes at 11 P.M. Matinee at 2 P. M. BRYANT’S OPERA HOUSE, zrews third street, corner of Sixih avenue —CINDER. ELLA'IN BLA NE ‘TRELSY, &c., at 8 P. a; closes at DPM. Mi 2PM EO} N HALL, Sixteenth street—THE PICCANINNIES, at 3P. M. and atsP. M BAIN HALL, Great Jones street and Latayetie pg —PILGRIM’S PROGRESS, ats P.M. ; ch oP. Broadway. corner of Thirty OF LONDON BY DAY, at 1: Feet. CYCLORAMA PARIS BY NIGHT, at7 P.M < closes at 4 P. closes at lv P. M. WITH S SUPPLEMENT. THE NEWS OF YESTERDAY. To-Day’s Contents of the Herald. MAGNIFICENT SC ‘3 AT THE WINTER PAL- ACE ON THE NEVA! THE UNION OF THE GALLANT ENGLISH TAR TO THE BEAU- TEOUS YOUN RUSSIAN PRINCESS! GRAPHIC SPECIAL ACCOUNT! ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND CELEBRATE THE EVENT— FIFTH PAGE. MEXICAN DIPLOMATIC ASSIGNMENTS! THE MINISTERS TO SPaIN AND GERMA AND CONSUL GENERAL TU HAMBURG! RE- VOLT IN SONORA—FirrH Paz. BANTANDER CAPTURED BY THE CARLISTS— IMPORTANT GENERAL NEWS—FirTH Pace. CUBAN PATRIOTS DEFEAT THE FORCE UNDER GENERAL PORTILLO! MILITARY OFFI- CERS GUILTY OF DISORDERS—Firta Paces. WHALLEY, MEMBER OF THE ENGLISH PARLIAMENT, IMPRISONED FOR CON- TEMPT! GREAT EXCITEMENT IN CUURT! EX-MINISTER SICKLES EXPECTED IN LON- DON—FirTH Pace. JEAN LUIE AND GUILDFORD ONSLOW—THE STINER FIRE—SEcOND PaGE. CONGRESS AND LOUISIANA AFFAIRS! PINCH- BACK’S FALL! HIS RESOLVE Tu DRAG MR. NEW YURKK HERALD, SATURDAY, JANUARY 24, 1874—WITH SUPPLEMENT, General Gramt Fires a Shotted Salute the infallible process of forcing it as a party for the First Monstrosity—The Louts- | measure—the same discipline applied at the jana Case. The President is opening bis campaign @gainst the monstrosities, and begins with one of the greatest. This is the Louisiana diii- culty. He proposes to refer it to an authority very competent to settle it, if fair play is se- cured—the people of the troubled State. He will recommend, it is reported, that Congress order a new election. It is far from just in principle that an issue once decided at the polls shall be tried over again because the beaten party has been able to confuse the result in the minds of people not generally gifted with very cloar vision. Parties beaten at the polls would be commonly well satisfied to have new elections ordered regularly. But it may be doubted if those who had carried the day would see the subject in the same light; for, to say nothing of the fact that the losers might by the results of the first trial be taught at what places exactly they had cheated too little, and be able to profit by the lesson, the bald fact of oust- ing the victors of their sovereign right as an elected government is open to serious objection. But in view of the atti- tude of the President, the Senate and the republican party toward Louisiana, the op- pressed people of that State will, we are of Opinion, accept gladly the chance for a solu- tion which can but prove them in the right in their assertion that they are now governed by usurpers. In assuming that the people who oppose the present government will vote it down atthe polls, we repeat, however, the res- ervation made above. They will do it if they have fair play. And this is an especially im- portant point in the case; for we must remem- ber that the person whose fraud may be ex- posed at the election are the men in power, and who will, we suppose, be in power on the day when the election occure. United States troops may be held ready to suppress dis- turbances, but this fact cannot affect any one of the hundred ways in which authority may incline the beam toward its friends; and if cases are made for the federal courts, why, we know what United States judges are in recon- structed districts. Intelligent persons who have examined the subject have universally as little doubt that the carpet-bag party was beaten in the Lou- isiana election as they have that the same party was beaten in the recent Toxas election; yet the decision of the people was disregarded and the defeated party was placed in power and sustained there by federal bayonets, on the order of a federal judge who has since re- signed to escape impeachment. All this was done under the power to guarantee to every State a government “republican in form.” All the political crimes nowadays are committed in the name of liberty. It was in the name of liberty—to preserve the people from the tyranny of the anarchists—that Louis Napo- Jeon ordered the shooting on the boulevards; and it is in the name of liberty that the reactionists at Versailles are now strangling the French Republic, for they say the continu- | ance of the Republic is inconsistent with the maintenance of order, and, of course, that order and liberty are inseparable. In Louisiana, therefore, we only had the local application of ® gigantic political irony, expressed in many other places also, that liberty should be muti- lated and pulverized for her own benefit. In detence of this great outrage in Louisiana the supporters of the usurpation mumble some considerations of the State census. No other defence has ever been made that had a particle of reason in it, and even this defence is very flimsy. They argue that the vote for the McEnery party is inconsistent with the de- ductions they make from the State census, and on no better ground the election ina nominally sovereign State is set aside by armed force, and an authority is established in defiance of every law upon which popular liberty depends. Political adventurers, used to every hazard and ready for every extreme, gather at an unknown place to scrutinize the returns of the election, and some of their number are fresh from terms of ‘involuntary labor” in State prisons. They assume that only white men voted for the McEnery ticket, and then their problem is to prove State as will make up the total McEnery vote and their own white vote. For this they rely upon the State census. Any fabric of reason. ing made to prove out of a census a problem not contemplated in the making of the census is one part figures and three parts forced OTHERS DOWN! OUR POLYGAMY TERRI- TORY—TENTH Pace. SCIENTISTS JEALOUSLY EXCLUDED FROM THE DEATHBED OF THE SIAMESE TWINS! DR. HOLLINSWORTH’S HISTORY OF THE CASE—SIXTH PaGE. THE CONGRESSIONAL DEBATE ON CURRENCY EXPANSION CONTINUED BY SENATOR STEWART! THE POSTAL ROUTE BILL PASSED! IMPROVING THE “FATHER OF WATERS”—THIRD PaGE. @HANGES IN THE STATE CONSTITUTION! PROBABLE RESULT OF THE PRESENT AGITATION! THE NEW YORK AND KINGS SENATORIAL DISTRICTS SAFE— Sut Pace. @X-PRESIDENT BAEZ ON DOMINICAN AFFAIRS AND THE SAMANA SCHEME! HIS BE- TRAYAL! ANNEXATION—TOM FIELDS IN BRUSSELS —MOTHER’S LOVE—REPUBLI- CAN DISCORDS—TuIRp Pace. QUICK TRANSIT FROM THE BATTERY TO HARLEM! THE POPULAR VIEWS—THE WILKES-CHAMBERLIN E1gura Pace. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL OPERATIONS— THE SUNDAY ACT—NiNTH PaGe. ECONOMY IN THE DEPARTMENT OF DOCKS! THE LEGISLATIVE PETITION AND THE COMMISSIONERS’ DEFENCE—THE SCANT 1CE CROP—THIRD Pace. THE ODDS BOOKED ON THE WITHERS AND BELMONT SWEEPSTAKES FOR 1874—LEGAL SUMMARIES—A CALIFORNIA ACTRESS SHOOTS HERSBLF—EIGHTH PaGR. LIBEL = sUIT— Bazz.—Ex-President Baez, who is now in this city, has not come to the United States without a mission. In an interview with a representative of the Henan yesterday he said that his purpose in coming here was to do what he could toward securing the annexation of St. Domingo to the United States, ‘Tue Govenxwent or tim Micxsoax Rupcn- Zac has, as will be seen by our special tele- gram from the national capital, completed the renewal of its diplomatic relations with Spain and Germany and perfected the Con- sular representation at Hamburg. ‘The State of Sonora is slightly agiteted bv a revolution- ist movement, inference. An ingenious reasoner can prove to himself whatever he pleases with such material, and, generally speaking, men who have boarded some time at the public ex- pense in the reformatory establishments do reason ingeniously rather than honestly. An election goes, therefore, on a partial partisan dishonest examination of a census and not on the votes cast at the polls; and even Sena- tor Morton was willing to accept a statistical inference as of more weight than an election by the people. It is a circumstance that must be remembered against him. But though the Louisiana people are ousted of their right, and must now, by going to the polls again, acquiesce to some degree in the view of those who ousted them, they will doubtless willingly hail the opportunity thus given to get the better of a wrong with which otherwise they would be hopelessly unable to cope. Against them is a party programme, and if the programme were insisted upon through and through they would be without remedy. Hitherto the republican party has conducted the ‘reconstruction’ of Louisiana strictly on the monstrosity and dead weight principle—that is to say, not at all witha view to re-establish the citizens in the enjoy- ment of their rights, not at all for the benefit of the people of that State or the country, but solely for the less legitimate party objects, for the profit and advantage of plun- derers and the hangers-on to the political for- tunes of party leaders. Every prominent republican politician who sided in nursing this Louisiana monster knew at every step that the proceedings were all frandulent ; but the political conscience is such that men who probably would not commit a com- mon theft or swear falsely before a magistrate ona case involving o bill for fifty dollars will perjure themselves consistently, day after day for a year, or case involving millions in public plunder, and will to their utmost endeavor aid @ conspiracy to steal a State from the people who own it. As the conspiracy had been successful at every stage through the operation of yarty gressure—by that there are not so many white voters in the | door of the Senate would have been successful there, and Pinchback would have obtained his seat. Louisiana must therefore accept and welcome any event short of that; for the party loaders wiil not criminate themselves by the admission of their iniquity and the aban- donment of their position, though they may hesitate to pursue their evil course to its legitimate consequences. But the significant part of this event is that the President boldly throws over a cherished party measure on the principle declared by him a few days since—namely, that it is a monstrosity, and one of the dead weights that the party cannot any longer safely carry. This appears not to be the view held by the republicans in Congress, There is no evi- dence that they are less in love with the re- sults of reconstruction than they were; and Senator Morton especially has taken pains to say, and to emphasize, that he does not aban- don ¢he position in virtue of which he has argued that Pinchback is entitled to a seat— only he has changed his opinion of Pinch- back himself. He does not believe that the greater offences against the sovereignty of the State would invalidate the claim of the would- be Senator, but he gives him up because he has heard of some minor offences, such as bribery. Distinguished republicans, therefore, hold on to the system and the principle of the Louisi- ana case; tho President is for throwing both over and definitely having done with the mischievous operations which are their legiti- mate consequences. Here, therefore, he dis- tinctly takes issue with the party and its pro- gramme and proposes to act on views of his own—with the party leaders if they will come over, without them if they choose. In this he exhibits some sense of political strategy. He perceives that this is the point on which the party is losing the support of the people, and his action is in sympathy with the popu- lar impulse and places him infinitely nearer than his party to the views of reconstruction entertained by the country. In addition to the general sagacity of cutting loose the dead weights—the political impedimenta—there is the special wisdom of perceiving the direction in which public thought is moving with re- gard to the iniquities the republicans have practised in the Southern States. It is like General Grant to act boldly on his perceptions, but we do not expect to see the dominant party assent to views that may deprive it of vast patronage and plunder in the South. On the contrary, we expect to see it make in Con- gress and elsewhere a full trial of tits strength with the President, and we believe the party may go to pieces in the struggle. the Name of Mr. Waite? s People naturally inquire in these days who makes President Grant's nominations; so they have wondered with unquenchable curiosity who brought to his notice the nameof Mr. Waite. Is this to be added to the mary other mysteries of this age and of previous ages? No one has yet given us reliable information as to who it was that inflicted on Patterson, familiarly called Billy, a now historic blow. Seven cities claimed the Homer dead through which the living Homer begged his bread— and the claim is still unsettled. Other in- quiries of the same nature hold over for want of answers, such as whether Shakespeare was the author of his own plays? Who wrote the ‘Letters of Junius”? Who was the Man with the Iron Mask? And, greatest and most mo- mentous inquiry of all, who is the managing editor of the New York Hugzatp? In order to spate the labor of any future Dryasdust we Who Proposed will here clear up immediately the great uncertainity in regard to the nomina- tion of Mr. Waite. The suggestion of Judge Waite’s name was first made by a member of the New York sar, Mr. Samuel L. M. Barlow, in an interview with a Heratp reporter. In that interview, published in the Heratp of August 29 last, Mr. Barlow thus pointed out the coming Chief Justice: — Itis nearly certain that the President will stick to mis party and nominate one of the many able men who support his administration. Assuming that to be the case, it brings the matter gown toa question of expediency in choosing the locality trom whence the incoming functtonary 1s to be se- lected. If the West is to be conciliated, im my opinion Mr. Waite, lately one of our representa- tives in the Geneva arbitration, would, I am sure, give great satisiaction. He is a thoroughly able lawyer, & Man of unblemished record and great rectitude of purpose. The West could not fail being much flattered by his appointment. The object of the Heratp in publishing the views of eminent lawyers and other prominent citizens on the Chief Justice question last summer was to afford the President a wide field for reflection and selection. It is grati- fying to know that, profiting by the valuable information thus laid before him, the Presi- dent made at last a successful choice, Taz Henacp Despatcues.—We observe that one of our contemporaries argues elab- orately to convict Mr. Fish of unbecoming conduct in the Virginius negotiation. In the course of the argument it uses the demands” that it is now recognized were made by our government against Spain, which demands were first published in a Hzpaxp despatch, and which when so published were denied by inspired government organs, the Heraup being thereupon harshly criticised by the bad tempered portion of the press as having merely gotten upasensation. Our contem- porary says of one of Mr. Fish’s transactions that it required ‘‘more than ordinary courage to falsity the record so anudacionsly.’” We found that Mr. Fish had that kind of courage when he inspired the mendacious denial of our despatches; but he was no worse than the journals which persisted in their charge against us after the publication of the points in question, as part of a government despatch had fully sustained the veracity of our cor- respondence. From Encianp To AvsTrania, viA New Yors.—The postal contract recently concluded between Postmaster General Creswell and the Postmaster General of New South Wales has begun to bring forth fruit. The first overland closed mail to Australia arrived at this port on Thursday in the City of Montreal. In five minutes afterwards it was in wagons and off by tail to San Francisco. On the 31st inst. it will be shipped at San Francisco for New South Wales, where, according to ordinary calcula- tion, it will arrive about the 20th or 2ist of February. By the few route there will thus be a great saving of time, say from eight to ten days over the whole line. This will be a gain to the business of the world; but it will bea special gain to New York, The Royal Marriage at St. Peters- burg—The Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh. The union of the Romanoffs and the Guelphs is an accomplished fact. The betrothal of the two lovers, whose ro- mantic attachment stirred the social world of Europe during the latter part of 1873, culminated yesterday in a solemn and im- posing marriage at the Winter Palace of St. Petersburg in the presence of a brilliant galaxy of potentates, princes, warriors, states- men and poets, The graphic and lengthy de- scription from the pen of Mr. Edmund Yates, the graceful essayist and distinguished novelist, which will be found elsewhere, was sent to us by cable from the Russian capital at a late hour last night, and, in point of terseness and vigor of language, in vivid portrayal of one of the grandest spectacles of the century, it has seldom, if ever, been equalled in our journalism. Tele- graphed from a city over six thousand miles from New York, ata time when St. Peters- burg was filled with excitement, when Russian, German, French and Austrian jour- nals were competing for the wires, it was found impossible to send the accounts via London. Thus the happy piece of strategy was adopted of despatching the report of Mr. Yates to Paris, where the Hxnaup corre- spondents took up the story and repeated it to New York. We need not dwell here upon the scientific achievement contained in this remarkable triumph—upon the perfection of electric communication around the world—a fact which makes it just as easy for a lead- ing journal to report a marriage occurring in the Russian capital as if it had been solemnized before the altar of St. Paul’s, not two minutes from our editorial rooms. It was at noon that the august ceremonies began, and the Winter Palace was crowded with an illustrious assemblage, sumptuously attired, sparkling with the radiance of pregious stones, while velvet and diamonds predom- inated in the ensemble. ‘The gentlemen,"’ says Mr. Yates, “were in uniform, with the exception of the American diplo- matists."" Whatever may have been the cloth of Mr. Jewell, or of Mr. Schuyler, the daring Asiatic traveller, we are sure that there were no more sincerely honored guests in the Winter Palace than they ; for, though separated by a wide distance and hay- ing radically different systems of govern- ment, America and Russia are still bound in an intimate bond of mutual sympathy. The royal procession, with the Emperor and Empress of Russia, the Imperial Prince and Princess, and the Prince and Princess of Germany, Denmark and England, preceded the bride and bridegroom. Maria Alexandrovna was magnificently apparelled in a long crimson velvet mantle, trimmed with ermine, and wearing a coronet of diamonds. Fol- lowing them were the first representa- tives of the Guelphs, Romanoff, Hohenzollerns and Hapsburgs, Schleswig- Holstein, Sonderburg-Glucksburgs; but ah! cruel fate! no Bonapartes, no Bourbons! We recognize among those gathered at the féte the royal scions who visited our shores, the Prince of Wales, and Prince Arthur, the mod- est young rifleman. The reception at the Russian church, where the procession was greeted by ecclesiastics bearing crosses, sacred vessels and holy water, was very imposing; and as the royal party took up their places in front of the altarin the magnificent chapel, decorated in gold and velvet and brilliantly illuminated, the best blood of Europe looked upon the young couple as crowns were held suspended above their heads, and in those children of a grand destiny whom did they behold? The bridegroom as an English sailor—a Prince if you please, who regularly entered the English Navy as a midshipman, serving a brief probation at Greenwich, after which he went to sea, passed through some of the hardships of the steerage, but oftener than his messmates, ‘crawled in through the cabin win- dows” and dined with the Captain, who was not prone to masthead the royal scion—Prince Alfred was not a bad companion. We all know that, like all midshipmen of the Anglo- Saxonnavies, he accepted his black eye and bruised countenance with the nonchalance of an ambitious sailor in payment for cutting down a messmate who was calmly slumbering in his hammock. Pardonable independence of behavior anda streak of ludicrous deviltry did not prevent his deserved promotion, while he made the most of his ardent youth and hilarious na- ture. One day he visited the ruins of Pompeii with the Russian royal family and the Prin- cess Maria was of the party—the first in his own station in life whom he had met and ad- mired. Subsequent intercourse taught him that she was all in allto him. The Romanofis, who always assert a desire for peace and the most cordial relations with England, hailed the unforseen attachment with joy, and promoted it by all the arts of diplomacy. The Princess was charmed with her conquest, and there is every evidence that she reciprocated the tender pas- sion of her suitor. Certain it is that she will make a charming wife, and, if occasion offer, a dignified and capable queen. Prince Alfred looks his thirty years of age, and, as the Euro- pean young man of the world goes, his early habits are already classed by his maturer judgment as his early follies. We do not, therefore, believe that if he had been what we recognize as a ‘good boy” he would have been more competent to contract the marriage relation and maintain it with constant and dignified devotion. Happy, then, that moment when the imperial confessor said: —‘‘Thou ser- vant of God, Alfred Ernest Edward, art crowned for this handmaiden of God, Maria Alexan- drovna, in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost.” But we will not pursue the marriage ceremony further. We wiil sim- ply observe that if these religious forms teach anything it is that the three Churches represented at the wedding—the Greek, the Roman Catholic and the Episco- pal—may, in a more liberal age, become as firmly bound together as were the couple whose union was celebrated yesterday. The other incidents of the féte—the outburst of popular feeling showered on the Prince of Wales, the pealing of the great bell of St. Petersburg, the motherly tenderness of the invalid Empress—will long be remembered in the ‘Paris of the North.” Tux Cry Frvances.—Mayor Havemeyer has not yet explained why he sought, by a trick, to hoodwink the people of New York into the belief that the gity and county debt in 1873 nas only moreasea fourteen million dollars over the debt of 1871, when the in- crease is, in fact, more than forty millions, or why he stated the revenue bonds outstanding on December 31 last to be one and a half mil- lions, when in fact they amounted to ten and a half millions. The Mayor owes it to his constituents to state whether in this juggle he was made the dupe of the Comptroller, or whether he was himself endeavoring to dupe the people. Rapid Transit. The .columns of the Hxnarp have been freely used during the last two or three days by whoever seemed to have any valuable sug- gestions to make on the question of rapid transit. On Thursday we printed a long let- ter from Mr. Oharles Minton advocating a partially underground road in the blocks between Kighth and Ninth avenues to Fif- teenth street, thence west of Greenwich ave- nue and through Washington square to the block between Mercer street and Broadway, and thence to the Battery. Besides its costli- ness, this plan has the disndvantage of destroying many valuable buildings, tho lower story being necessary for the purposes of the road, and of obstructing all crosstown streets in the city with bridges. Something better thin this must be found, for these ob- jections seem fatal to the plan. Yesterday Mr. John B. Church wrote in favor of the elevated plan, his method being to build the railway on © platform of iron trestlework. This method ‘has been disoussed over and over again, but the plan has never met with much favor. To- day we present additional views from other correspondents on the same general subject. It will be observed, as a feature of this corre- spondence, that the necessity of rapid transit is dwelt upon in almost every communication. Itis time something was done for the relief of the teeming population of the metropolis, and we hope some one will be able to suggest a plan at once feasible and economical. The Cuban War. General Portilla is reported to have sus- tained a third defeat at the hands of the in- surgents and to be on his way back to confer with the Captain General He went down to Camaguey with great blowing of trumpets to wipe out the insurrection; but, like so many other illustrious swords, he has come out of the business rather badly. The chief difference, perhaps, is that his baggage has rather decreased during his campaign. It is encouraging for the Cuban cause that Spanish columns can no longer roam at will through the Cuban territory. Melones has proved that the Cuban troops can fight and conquer the Spaniards in the field, while the blockade of Manzanillo and Bayamo, which has lasted for well nigh o year, point to grow- ing strength in the Cuban army that augurs ill for the pacification of the country. This is the sixth year of the war of independence, and there is certainly no sign of weakness shown by the patriot forces. The action of General Portilla in renewing the reign of terror at Puerto Principe is more likely to serve the cause of the insurrection than to in- jure it. He has proved himself more danger- | ous to the peaceful Cubans who had surren- dered to the government than to their sturdier countrymen who met him with arms in their hands. ‘Tue Successor or THE Curler JusTICE IN tHE Onro ConstrrutionaL Convention. —The Vice President of the Ohio Constitutional Convention, now that its President has been made Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, is expected to take the vacant chair of the presiding officer in that Convention. Lewis D. Campbell is that Vice President, and it would be an interesting epi- sode in the history of the Buckeye State to see General Campbell in that position. Icz.—Although the winter has been an un- usually mild one sufficient time yet remains not only for gathering, but for freezing, a full ice crop. Asingle week of biting frost will do the work, and if the companies are ready at the propitious moment there may be no scarcity of ice by the end of February. Tue Sunpay Law.—It was a happy thought which led the German republicans last night to call the legislative enactment under which the police are now acting an antiquated law known as the Sunday law. Some of its re- strictions ought to be repealed, if for no other reason because they are seldom enforced and } soon become antiquated. Geatrryinc News From Secretary Ricu- arpsoN—That the receipts from Customs and Internal Revenue during the present month have been coming in so well as to justify the Secretary in expressing the opinion that there will be no increase of the public debt. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Beecher & Beer 1s the name of a New Haven firm. General Gideon J. Pillow is losing the sight of his left eye. ‘They tell us now that Senator Sumner is a good billiard player. Assemblyman Uharles 8, Spencer is at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. General Joun L. Swift, of Boston, is staying at the Windsor Hotel. Rev. Pelham Williams, of Boston, is stopping at the Albemarle Hotel. Colonel H. 8. McComb, of Delaware, has apart- ments at the Windsor Hotel. Sir Alexander T. Galt arrived from Montreal yesterday at the Gilsey House. State Senator Frank Abbott, of Port Jervis, N, Y., is again at the Hoffman House. Major George F. Barstow, United States Army, is quartered at the New York Hotel. State Treasurer Thomas Raines is residing tem- porarily at the Metropolitan Hotel. Jadge B. Piatt Carpenter, of Poughkeepsie, is registered at the Fifth Avenue Hotel. Senator-clect Withers, of Virginia, is the father of fourteen children, eleven of whom are living. Samuel Bowles, of the Springfield Republican, 18 among the late arrivals at the Brevoort House. Dewitt C. Ellis, Superintendent of the Bank De- partment, has arrived at the Metropolitan Hotel from Albany. The Abbé Baronio is now in prison in Milan, Italy, charged with trying to kill several of his religious colleagues by poisoning the wine used by them at mass, Judge Harrison was thrown from his carriage at Guilford, Conv., on Monday, while trying to pass the Rev. W. H. H, Murray. Both gentlemen were driving at fall speed. Mr, Plimsoll, M, P., has so many suits for libel against nim that he is compelled to economize tn the matter of counsel fees, and is now reading “Bvery Man His Own Lawyer.” Mohsin Khan, the Persian Ambassador to Con- stantinople, last month gave a ball at his resi- dence inStamboul. This is the furthest pass to which Moslem tolerance has come. Sow ut is officially announged tat the romantic i A a story oftne Grana Luke’ Alexis’ marriage is un- true. He is not only not living at Nice with bis wile, but he has no wife with'gvhom to live, The President of the Terk’s Islands government, Mr. Melfort Campbell, has taken his departure from Grand Turk for Nevis, to which place he is appointed, He was presented with a complimen- tary address by the inhabitants of Grand Turk. Count von Moltke nas become the conservative candidate for the German Parliament in Berlin, The indications are that he wili not be chosen, as Berlin is truly radical, Wis supporters say that his candidacy t8 meant only to teat the fullrat Strength of the conservatives in the capital. Mr. David Ker, the correspondent who saw the “picturesque old savage seated on the confines of the everlasting desert,” has returned (o England. When the Russian government heard that the London Telegraph had repadiatea him asa corre- spondent it treated bim severely as a daring im- postor, Sir Henry Thompson, the famous British sur~ geon, wishes chemists to search after dome other methods of producing the “chemical reductioner the body,” though he believes the process of crenm- tion to be as good as canbe found. He severdy dislikes the practice of burial. WEATHER REPORT. War DEPARTMENT, Ovriog OF THE CHIKF SIGNAL OFFTORR, WasHinaTon, D. C., Jan, 24—1 A. M, Probabilities. For NeW ENGLAND AND THK MIDDLE STATES FRESH AND BRISK NORTHWESTERLY TO SOUTHWRS®- RRLY WINDS AND CLEAR OR FAIR WEATHSR WIth PREVAIL, WITH LOWER TEMPERATURE. For the Gul! States, east of the Mississippi River and thence eastward to the Atlantic coast, slight oloudiness, with lower temperature and rising barometer. For Tennessee and the Onlo Valley colder aad generally clear weather, with rising barometer and wind shifting to northwesterly. For the lake region continued high barometer, wi oom and partly cloudy weather and variatle win Yor the Northwest very cold and generally clear weather, with continued high barometer and northerly to westerly winds. Cautionary signals continue at Cape May, New York, New London, New Haven, Wood's Hols, Boston, Portiaud and Eastport. The Weather in This City Yesterday. The following record will show the changes im the temperature for the past twenty-four hours im comparison with the corresponding day last year, as indicated by the thermometer at Hudnout's phar- macy, HERALD Building :— Che 1874 1873, 1874. BA. M.....e 51 30 62 54 oo 56 ao 60 12P. 3 perature yesterda: oLK Average temperature for corresponding date jast year tecerecereeee BUG Boston, Jan. 23, 1874. The thaw has quite used up sleighing in tnis city. THE COAL CONTEST. No Agreement by the Miners to Submit to Lower Wages. WILKESBAERE, Pa., Jan. 23, 1874. The special despatch from this place, which ap~ peared in several of the New York papers of this morning, concerning @ secret session of numerous leading men among the miners, at which it was re- solved to submit to a reduction of wages from the companies, rather than remain longer idle, must be received with several grains of allowance. A leading miner, and one of the representatives, who should have been at the secret meeting, ina: conversation to-day called the despatch “a tabrica- tion from beginning to end, and without the least. imaginable foundation."” The miners all repudiate it, and claim that it was sent in the interests of the corporations. There has no such change taken place in the condition of affairs, and, as already stated, the indications are that the miners will not insist on an advance over last oe basis provided steady work be. guaranteed them, but are still firm in saying that they will stand out against @ reduction; and - probabilities are, without having it officiall any of the companies, that they will nob insist very strongly upon a reduction; but as soon as all repairs are completed, or the Surplus stock worked off, or coal reaches a higher price they will say to the men, “You can go to work at last year’s wages."’ Meeting of the Schuylkill Operators— End of the Strike. POTTSVILLE, Pa., Jan. 23, 1874, The meeting of coal operators here to-day wat large and well attended. The workingmen some days since submitted a note signifying their willingness to give up their demand for circular Hips but insisted on having the basis of 1873 continued. The reply to that was the circular of the operators to the mem pre aT ¢ their proposition, and signifying that they would accept and agreed to pay during 1874 on the basis of 1873. ‘This virtually ends the strike in this section. The following are the ferocoaaties of the general Meeting of the coal trade of the Schulkill region, held at Lyceum Hall, January 23, 1874:— The following operators were present:—G. W. Cole, William Brenizer, Theodore Garretson, James C. Oliver, George H. Joins, William Lloyd, G. W. Johns, Daniel P. Miller, George Owens, John R. Davis, M. F. Maize, H. L. Wiliams, Tocht, Wait- aker & Co., John Wadiinger, John Hoch, Daniet Althouse, "William C, Lewis, Andrew Turnbull, Jacob F, Lawrence, Thomas Schollenperger & Co., George F. Wiggan, W. J. Moodie, Jeremiah Tyler, Claude White, John G. Hewes, William Brown, William Kendrick, F. B. Gowen, Alexander Fulton, Edward Patterson, A. B. Day. George W. Cole was appointed chairman and William Brenizer secretary. The following reso- lutions were adopted :— Resolved, That we do hereby agree to bind ourselves to fal faithfully carry out the same arrangements for 1874 as for 1 Resolved, In regard to the sale of coal to the line and city trade, that a committee of five be appointed to draw up such regulations {or the government of this trade ax shall be necessary. The dah committee was appointed for the che out the above resolution:—George W. johns, ‘heodore Garretson, A saga F. Wiggau, Wil- liam Brenizer, George W. ole, c airman, D. Palmer, G. W. Cole, William Brenize1, Owens, Theodore Garretson, Heim Geo and H. Johns be continued as the’ Committee on Line amd City Prices for 1874 The following correspondence was read to che meeting :— Porrsvittx, Jan. 17, 874. irman :— y agreed to abandon our demand to accept the same basis tor 1874 aswe rebeiied for’ 1873, prices to be ascertained in the usual way, which we hope will be accepte1 by your cominitiee, as we have no desire to enter into, ign ours respectfully, JOHN SINE! The following reply was returned :— Porrsvitty, J ‘1, 1874. Mr, Joun Sixzy, President of tne W. Duan Str—Your favor of the 47th, abandoning your de- mand fo) es tor 1874, to be fixed by the circulars, was your Proposition for working 10 es and terms as 1873 18 accepte quest your committee to meet our committe ville on Saturday next, the 2th ingt., at ten o'clock. Re- specttully, GEORGE W. COLE, Chairman. Resolved, That the action of the Committee on Basis, in continuing the 1873 basis for 1874, 18 hereby endorsed Resoived, thatthe Ged bay of the trade is hereby tendered to F. B. Gow: + for the able man- her in which he managed the trade oi’ this re egion during 1873, and for which he has our confidence and esteem This resolution was passed after Mr. Gowen had left the meeting. _ "TEXAS, Joyous Demonstrations Over the Sac- cess of Free Government=—Governor ¥s Speech. Coke’s Spe Gai.vEston, Jan. 23, L874. A special despatch to the News trom Austin “The Governor haa issued @ proclamation for holding elections on February 17 to fill the va~ cancies in the Twelfth and Sixteenth districts. “The Travis Rifles met to-day at their armory, in full uniform, and marched to the Capitol Building, where two Gatling guns were in position. One hundred and two guns were fired in honor of the great success of free government. The Governor and Lieutenant Governor were called for, aud responded in address attendance. Governor Coke said :— for the honor you have done me as the tative of iree government in Texas, demonstration you are showing that your hearts and souls are in unison with the great heart of the tee, of Texas, irom the Rio Grande to the Sa- Ine and {rom the mountains tothe Gulf. Joy un- speakable is welling up irom the people's hearts, because {ree goverament—the right of local self. government, Which has been suppressed here tor these many baBotae at length aroused itsell,’'” LOUISIANA POLITICS, New ORLEANS, Jan. 4. U0. The Republican State Central Committee .s aow in session in the Senate Chamber, There 1s a ial attendance from all parts of the State. Resolu- ions were nnanimonusiy adopted protesting againat 4 new election as likely to cost the lives of hun- dreds of colored men In the northern pacts of tha State god the Red River varishes,